Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Statistical Impossibility. In its pure state machismo is linked with valor, courage, honor and dignity, but too often it is more gun-toting brag than performance. Machos insist that the women they marry be virgins, and they will defend the honor of their sisters to the death-all of which makes their endless tales of conquest a statistical impossibility. In industry, machismo makes business a one-man show; a boss makes decisions, wrong or right, almost in spite of his advisers. Internationally it can raise a Latin negotiator to his full height with a proud rejection of proffered aid -even...
...Kline picked 20 private patients, living at home, suffering from "pure" depression. One patient, who was also physically ill, failed to respond, and one responded feebly. But 18 showed marked improvement within 24 hours after they got an injection of 5-HTP along with oral doses of energizer drugs. Among 30 patients with different types of depression associated with hardening of the brain arteries or schizophrenia-like disorders, only seven showed marked improvement. But this is better than with previous drug treatments...
Frequently diffuse and cryptic, Miss Oldenbourg's account nevertheless rises on occasion to a passionate eloquence which perceives (and persuades) that physical cruelty is a pure manifestation of evil. As a temporarily absolved prisoner, De Montbrun is forced to watch the Inquisition's heretic burnings in Toulouse. Through the swirling clouds of smoke, De Montbrun sees "the bloody contorted bodies writhing like snakes on poles-the raw heads, the faces blistered and bursting, and still screaming. It was ugly; never had human faces been so ugly...
...know," says Turnbull to a junior officer, "I sometimes think we learn about horses from women, and about women from horses." "A year ago I was a child," Boete tells his girl. "Now I am almost a man." At this level of pure romanticism, the book offers certain delights, not all of them perhaps intended by the author. As a serious attempt to understand South Africa, the book offers only pretensions. Old Africa Hand Stuart Cloete knows perfectly well that the Boer War, like the Civil War, was rooted in the problem of race, was the reaction of a primarily...
Feasts & Magic. The grass-roots Mahayana Buddhism in the Viet Nam villages is a long way from such grim practices. It usually takes the form of the easygoing Amidism, in which a paradise called "Pure Land" awaits the intense faithful who repeats a simple prayer. It is strongly influenced by the magical practices of corrupted Taoism, imported from China around the 7th century, and by Confucianism, which stresses ethical behavior...